The Liberal government unreasonably invoked the Emergencies Act to clear the convoy protests that gridlocked the capital city and border points nearly four years ago, the Federal Court of Appeal ruled on Friday.
The court dismissed the government’s appeal of a 2024 ruling which deemed former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to use the legislation unlawful and infringed on protesters’ Charter rights.
“As disturbing and disruptive the blockades and the convoy protests in Ottawa could be, they fell well short of a threat to national security,” wrote the three judges on the appeal court.
This is how good people get screwed, but stupid judges that can’t see 2+2 is 4. In the eyes of the court now a ‘National Security’ threat has to be so great that an invading army needs to be parked on Parliament Hill.
Most normal people don’t want a hundred trucks honking all night long for weeks on end, it’s insanity.
Most normal people dont see honking trucks as threat to national security. The Emergencies Act was formerly called the War Measures Act was written for time of war by an invading army and honking trucks are not an act of war. Obviously.